{"id":11134,"date":"2014-10-20T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2014-10-20T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:36:42","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-the-talking-machine-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-talking-machine-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Talking Machine Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/EdisonRecordSleeveLivingArtist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11135 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/EdisonRecordSleeveLivingArtist.jpg\" alt=\"EdisonRecordSleeveLivingArtist\" width=\"327\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/EdisonRecordSleeveLivingArtist.jpg 327w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/EdisonRecordSleeveLivingArtist-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a>For your listening pleasure: 30 minutes of \u00a0<em>The Talking Machine Show<\/em>\u00a0via WWCR. This broadcast was recorded October 18, 2014 at 2300 UTC, on the shortwave frequency of 9350 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>A big hat tip\u00a0to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Thomas Ally, who first\u00a0informed me about <em>The Talking Machine Show<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwcr.com\/program-guides\/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">via WWCR<\/a>. As many of you may know, I&#8217;m a sucker for early recordings and radio nostalgia!<\/p>\n<p>This recording was made with the <a title=\"The Elad FDM-S2 SDR: Unboxing, installing, and a first recording\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-elad-fdm-s2-sdr-unboxing-installing-and-a-first-recording\/\">Elad FDM-S2<\/a>\u00a0SDR and horizontal delta loop\u00a0antenna.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TalkingMacine9630kHz18OCT20142300\/TalkingMacine-9630kHz-18OCT2014-2300.mp3\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3,<\/a> or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TalkingMacine9630kHz18OCT20142300\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: 30 minutes of \u00a0The Talking Machine Show\u00a0via WWCR. This broadcast was recorded October 18, 2014 at 2300 UTC, on the shortwave frequency of 9350 kHz. A big hat tip\u00a0to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Thomas Ally, who first\u00a0informed me about The Talking Machine Show\u00a0via WWCR. As many of you may know, I&#8217;m a sucker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,305,746,43,1167],"tags":[4091,1302,4106,4082,3327,3328],"class_list":["post-11134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-talking-machine-show","tag-wwcr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2TA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64213,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-90-metre-band-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":11134,"position":0},"title":"The 90 metre band &#8211; Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"October 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following guest post: The 90 metre band \u2013 Then and Now by Dan Greenall A few decades ago, the 90 metre shortwave broadcast band used to be full of interesting and challenging-to-hear DX signals. 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